After dispelling speculations of disunity among Otso Diretso candidates, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who is running for senator, said on Wednesday that each member of the opposition coalition faces a different challenge in the campaign for the May 2019 elections.

The midterm elections will shape up to be a referendum not only on President Rodrigo Duterte’s three-year administration but also on the people’s capacity to vote wisely, according to members of the opposition Otso Diretso slate.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a government initiative that offers conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor families, should be a law in the Philippines, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said.